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An Islamic woman is claiming she was fired from her Midtown job for complaining that a co-worker called her “Mrs. Osama bin Laden” and suggested she could be “a suicide bomber for Saddam Hussein.”

Azza Elmostehi’s complaint prompted the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to file a civil-rights suit yesterday in Manhattan federal court against her former employer, Poggenpohl U.S. Inc., a kitchen-furniture maker.

The suit, which seeks unspecified monetary damages, claims Poggenpohl created and maintained “a hostile work environment based on Azza Elmostehi’s national origin [Egyptian] and religion [Muslim].”

It also says an unnamed female co-worker of Elmostehi referred to her as “Mrs. Osama bin Laden” and “Mrs. Taliban,” told her she could “find alternate employment as a suicide bomber for Saddam Hussein,” and said within earshot that she hated Arab countries and “wishes that they would all be killed.”

Michael Gorelick, a lawyer for Poggenpohl, said the company denies violating equal-opportunity laws, called Elmostehi a “disgruntled former employee, and added that “she was fired because of her performance,” not because of her complaint to management.

Gorelick also said “the person who harassed her was fired as soon as the company confirmed that . . . objectionable statements had been made.”

Elmostehi’s lawyer, Saul Zabell, said the harasser was fired only after his Farmingdale, L.I., firm notified Poggenpohl last year that Elmostehi planned to sue the company following her own dismissal. Zabell said other co-workers heard the harassment and had complained to management.

A Princeton Junction, N.J., resident, the 40ish Elmostehi is a single mother of three sons and had worked for Poggenpohl’s parent company in Persian Gulf countries and elsewhere for about 17 years. Then about 3½ years ago, she transferred to a $76,000-a-year job as operations manager in the company’s New York showroom.

She told The Post that her co-worker made anti-Arab comments soon after her arrival but that the harassment “really . . . became more and more after” the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.